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CJSR’S Best of 2010

It’s hard to believe we’re at the end of the year already. I still feel like I just started here in the music chair at CJSR, and almost an entire year has gone by! It’s been quite the learning experience, but I think I might just have the hang of it now, by gum.

One thing I love about this time of year is the massive amount of “best of” lists you can find everywhere. I missed seeing them at CJSR for last few years (I think the old site still had the top albums of 2006 on it) so way back in June I started compiling all of our chart data from every week since I started here, and now the fruits of that labour are here for you to enjoy.

“Best of” is a bit misleading perhaps. These records aren’t on this list because we arbitrarily decided they were the best releases this year. They’re here because they were the most-played albums at CJSR over the past year, as selected by our DJs and requested by our listeners.

CJSR’s top 100 provides a snapshot of the variety of programming available here at 88.5FM, with indie, folk, punk, metal, blues, electronic, hip hop, soul and so much more getting represented.

Any bolded artist you see is based in Edmonton.

CJSR’s Top 100
Albums of 2010

Artist

Album

Label

1

Black Keys

Brothers

Nonesuch

2

the Pack A.D.

We Kill Computers

Mint Records

3

Provincial Archive

Maybe We Could Be Holy

Bedrooms & Basements

4

Falklands

Think About It

Clamour Records

5

City Streets

The Jazz Age

Clamour Records

6

Black Mountain

Wilderness Heart

Jagjaguwar

7

Rae Spoon

Love is a Hunter

Self Released

8

Caribou

Swim

Merge

9

Wolf Parade

Expo 86

Sub Pop

10

the Sadies

Darker Circles

Outside Music

11

Ghostkeeper

Ghostkeeper

Flemish Eye

12

Cygnets

Bleak Anthems

Self Released

13

Ty Segall

Melted

Goner

14

Best Coast

Crazy For You

Mexican Summer

15

Broken Social Scene

Forgiveness Rock Record

Arts & Crafts

16

Eamon McGrath

Peacemaker

White Whale Records

17

Grinderman

2

Anti-

18

Women

Public Strain

Flemish Eye

19

New Pornographers

Together

Last Gang

20

Let’s Dance

Outta Time

Beer Belly Records

21

Mark Sultan

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Last Gang

22

Library Voices

Denim On Denim

Young Soul

23

Forest City Lovers

Carriage

Out Of This Spark

24

Various

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25

Old Wives

See You In Hell

Self Released

26

B.A. Johnston

Thank You For Being a Friend

Just Friends Records

27

Arcade Fire

The Suburbs

Merge

28

No Problem

Your Eyes 7″

Handsome Dan

29

Tarantuja

Do Not Resuscitate

Unrest Records

30

Black Angels

Phosphene Dream

Blue Horizon

31

Bruce Haack

Farad – The Electric Voice

Stones Throw

32

the National

High Violet

4AD

33

Michael Rault

Ma-Me-O

Pirates Blend

34

Kat Danser

Passin’-A-Time

Self Released

35

Besnard Lakes

Are the Roaring Night

Jagjaguwar

36

Frog Eyes

Paul’s Tomb: A Triumph

Dead Oceans

37

Whitsundays

Saul

Friendly Fire

38

JomComyn

Balcony EP

Champion City Records

39

Black Mastiff

Black Mastiff EP

One Line Guy

40

the Books

The Way Out

Temporary Residence

41

Luke Doucet & the White Falcon

Steel City Trawler

Six Shooter

42

Holy Fuck

Latin

XL

43

The Joe

PLAYFIGHT

Old Ugly Recording Co.

44

Ben Disaster

Lloyd Tillman Is…

Self Released

45

Belle & Sebastian

Write About Love

Matador

46

Grave Mistakes

Dig Your Own Grave

Self Released

47

Plants & Animals

La La Land

Secret City

48

Smokestack Jacks

Smokestack Jacks

Ghostwood

49

Mitchmatic

Two Weeks Off

Old Ugly Recording Co.

50

Ted Leo & the Pharmicists

The Brutalist Bricks

Matador

51

Hellsongs

Hymns in the Key of 666

Aporia

52

Famines

Syllables 7″

Mammoth Cave

53

Hot Panda

How Come I’m Dead?

Mint Records

54

Deerhunter

Halcyon Digest

4AD

55

Rape Revenge

Rape Revenge EP

xTRUEx Records

56

Hang-Ten Hangmen

Songs From the Scaffold

Self Released

57

Dum Dum Girls

I Will Be

Sub Pop

58

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings

I Learned the Hard Way

Daptone

59

Nu Sensae

TV, Death and the Devil

Nominal

60

Owen Pallett

A Swedish Love Story EP

For Great Justice

61

Little Miss Higgins

Across the Plains

Self Released

62

Outdoor Miners

Disgust EP

Pop Echo

63

Brazilian Money

Friendly Neighbor

Self Released

64

Fire Next Time

Wild Rose Sorrow

Self Released

65

Grimes

Geidi Primes

Arbutus

66

Les Savy Fav

Root For Ruin

Frenchkiss

67

the Acorn

No Ghost

Paper Bag Records

68

Krang

They Came From Planet D

Cassettes Records

69

Whiskey Face

Our Past is Bronzed

Clamour Records

70

Marshall Lawrence

Blues Intervention

Self Released

71

Darren Frank

That Lived-In Look

Self Released

72

Wavves

King of the Beach

Fat Possum

73

Death Toll Rising

Defecation Suffocation

Androgynous Worm

74

Striker

Eyes In The Night

Iron Kodex

75

Blue Hawaii

Blooming Summer

Arbutus

76

Mavis Staples

You Are Not Alone

Anti-

77

Diamond Rings

Special Affections

Secret City

78

Shad

TSOL

Black Box

79

Land of Talk

Cloak & Cipher

Self Released

80

PS I Love You

Meet Me at the Muster Station

Paper Bag

81

High on Fire

Snakes For the Divine

E1

82

Cyclist

Double Dip EP

Dublum

83

Sarah Harmer

Oh, Little Fire

Cold Snap

84

United Steel Workers

Three On the Tree

Weewerk

85

Lab Coast

Wilding

Transit

86

the Depression

World Gone Mad

Self Released

87

Battle Snakes

On Fire ’99

Transistor 66

88

the Vaselines

Sex With An X

Sub Pop

89

Aloe Blacc

Good Things

Stones Throw

90

Silly Kissers

Precious Necklace

Arbutus

91

Fred Eaglesmith

Cha Cha Cha

Lonesome Day

92

Bloodshot Bill

Git High Tonight

Transistor 66

93

Dubmatix

System Shakedown

Renegade Rocker

94

Del Barber

Love Songs for the Last 20

Broken Ground

95

Cosmetics

Soft Skin 7″

Captured Tracks

96

Greg Amundson

White White

Shameless

97

Keep Me Safe

E.P.ilogue On Opposite Day

Self Released

98

Bonspiel!

Dancin’ Like Your Uncle

Self Released

99

F&M

Sincerely, F&M

Shameless

100

John Hornak

A Needle, a Feather and a Rope

Woodcore

You can let us know what your favourite bands, records, songs, shows, etc, were in the comments. We’d love to hear from you.